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The first school museum was opened in St. Louis in 1905. Soon after others opened in Reading, PA, and Cleveland, OH.
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1908 marked the beginning of the Visual Education Movement.
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First catalog of instructional films are are published.
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Rochester, NY becomes first school system to use films for regular instructional use
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Thomas Edison quoted as saying, "Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...It is possibly to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years."
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From 1914-1923 five national professional organizations for visual instruction were established, five journals focusing on visual instruction began publication, and more than twenty teacher training institutions began offering courses.
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Department of Visual Instruction was a part of the National Education Association and eventually became the AECT.
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Investors had invested and lost more than $50 million. The Great Depression, which started in 1929, played a role in the money loss.
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Developed for War Training and oversaw the production of 457 films.
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FCC decided to set aside 242 channels for education use.
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"The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching" started an educational shift in the field.
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The launch of Sputnik caused the U.S. to sink millions of dollars into developing and improving math and science skills.
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Gagne discovered that "skills withoing the intellectual skills domain have hierarchial relationship to each other."
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"The Conditions of Learning" discussed the five outcomes of learning.
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The commission stated that TV was being extremely underutilized and if you were to remove that educational system would be left unchanged.
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Atkinson and Shriffin proposed a memory theory that is regarded as the basis for information processing theory.
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1983 computers were used for educational purposes in 40% of educational schools and 74% of secondsary schools in US.
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Team at Vernderbilt proposes that anchored instruction is a means for providing context in problem solving.
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Gagne and Merrill propose the idea of enterprise schema, which defines the context and reason for learning.
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Only 64% of classrooms had computers with Internet access.
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Pebble-in-the-Pond model is created by Merrill.
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The authors created one of the most popular and influential models.
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Kirschner, Sweller, and CLark find that constructivism is a poor learning theory choice when dealing with novice and intermediate learners.
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30% of of training hours in over three hundred companies in the US are presented via technology.
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4.6 million students were enrolled in online courses in Fall of 2008.
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Employees largley start using the internet to help job performance, for job support, and help from online communities.
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93% of classrooms had internet access.
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over 50% of college professros use social media for instruction